Former La Casan Andrew Heathwaite still has blog edit privileges. Therefore, hi!
And also, he just made an album in the month of February! What excitement!
There are some first steps here into a new style, exploring tuning, time and form in an electronic-pop medium. Free to stream and download online:
Maybe good music to listen to while perusing the La Casa chicken picture archives?
ODDMUSIC URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
– presents –
odd instrument garden
at La Casa Grande Colectiva (a collective residence)
906 S. Maple St, Urbana
Sunday June 27 at 5pm
FREE!
Donations gratefully accepted to support our “artist in residence” program.
You’re invited to an open house in th form of a temporary sound garden. Odd and 1-of-a-kind instruments growing together in a “garden” for you to see & try out. Come at 5 to see th “garden.” Then stick around, because at 5:30, we’ll have a “garden tour,” & you can hear all our odd instruments at play: a full concert in th odd instrument garden.
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Oddmusic U-C is building a library of unusual and usual musical instruments at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and facilitates events to connect experimental composition, microtonality, & instrument-building with radical social change.
As many of you know, Jacob and Andrew have a project going at the IMC called Oddmusic Urbana-Champaign:
Oddmusic U-C is building a library of unusual and usual musical instruments at the UC-IMC and facilitates events to connect experimental composition, microtonality, & instrument-building with non-sectarian radical social change. We insist upon “music” as a type of “odd,” desirable when it avoids the same old society telling itself what it already knows.
Last month, we had a grand(e) opening, and this month an opportunity has come up to relocate our collection to a brand new space that’s cheaper, more commodious, brighter, and by at least one guest’s account, friendlier! Last Sunday, with help from our friends Mary Ann(e), Don, Snow Leopard, and Mary Margaret, we successfully moved into our great new space. We’re continuing to host office hours every Sunday evening from 7pm to 9:30, so feel free to come by this weekend and see what we’re about. We’re now in the basement of the Independent Media Center (at Elm and Broadway in Urbana), room 21A, just down the hall from the Bike Project.
For more, see our blog and (or) sign up to be on the Oddmusic listserv.
Some of you have already heard about the weirdwonderfulness going on at the Independent Media Center these days. Jacob & Andrew have started renting a space & lovingly devoting it to ODDMUSIC. We are presently collecting musical oddities (such as microtonal midi controllers with hundreds of buttons, defretted guitars, and musical saws) to make available for public use. We envision, among many things, an instrument library, developing right here in Urbana.
I mention this now because a.) we just started a fancy new blog, & b.) we are hosting office hours every Sunday night this week from 7pm to whenever. Folks have come by to play on our strange instruments, talk oddmusic, & scheme for future musical provocations.
Do consider yourself invited! We plan to be there next Sunday (& times in between, of course, at odd hours), so please stop by & see what the heck. Oddmusic is located on the second floor of the IMC. We’ll leave the back door open for you – not the Bike Co-op door, but the next one over on the left. Walk up the stairs & follow the wafting tunes.
